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First Aid

Your team will learn how to:

• Understand ARC guidelines for first aid to infants, children, and adults.
• Identify incident hazards and minimise risks.
• Know legal and workplace considerations, including duty of care.
• Recognise CPR techniques and differences for different age groups.
• Understand signs, symptoms, and management of various conditions and injuries.
• Know procedures for dealing with casualties, including triage and first aid management in different settings.
• Understand the use of ancillary first aid equipment and coordination of resources.
• Know the contents of first aid kits and how to use them.
• Recognise the psychological impacts of first aid incidents on rescuers and how to seek help.

They will practice:

• Using Australian guidelines to manage an unconscious, but breathing person.
• Manage unconscious, non-breathing adults, infants and children, including CPR and AED use.
• Hand over to emergency services and provide accurate incident reports.
• Managing various first aid emergencies like anaphylaxis, bleeding, fractures, etc
• Respond to simulated first aid incidents, assess vital signs and provide treatment.
• Coordinate a response to multiple casualty incidents, including triage and resource management.